Quotes About Negotiation

We can't be fighting everybody at one time.

Why do we have to talk about it? Why? I never saw anything like this. Every time we're going to attack somebody we explain....

Of all the time-saving techniques ever developed, perhaps the most effective is the frequent use of the word no.

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.

Smaller movies are great because you don't have to argue with so many people all the time. But really I like arguing so there's a balance either way.

Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.

I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.

The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.

The timid man yearns for full value and asks for a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

Satan must have been pretty simple, even according to the New Testament, or he wouldn't have led Christ up on a high mountain and offered him the world if he would fall down and worship him. That was a manifestly absurd proposition, because Christ, as the Son of God, already owned the world; and besides, what Satan showed him was only a few rocky acres of Palestine. It is just as if some one should try to buy Rockefeller, the owner of all the Standard Oil Company, with a gallon of kerosene.

If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

I don't know. I don't want to sell him. All right. It's a mighty small tick, anyway.

There was no one to really argue with, but Mama managed it expertly every chance she had. She could argue with the entire world in that kitchen and almost every evening, she did.

Disinformation, which is the same as lying but for some reason has a different name, is the top tactic in corporate negotiation/warfare.

We kept nearly bumping into each other, unavoidably. I wished we could stop avoiding each other long enough to agree to avoid each other properly.

He rejected the policy of seeking a direct accommodation with the Nazis at the expense of the smaller states of Europe.

You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.

The purpose of our direct-action program is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. I therefore concur with you in your call for negotiation. Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue rather than dialogue.

As he continued, one could see obvious disappointment on the faces of the white committee members. By trying to convince the Negroes that I was the main obstacle to a solution they had hoped to divide us among ourselves. But Ralph's statement left no doubt. From this moment on the white group saw the futility of attempting to negotiate us into a compromise.

You may well ask: Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path? You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.

And do you want your sausages or don't you want your sausages, cos I'm aware of that sausage hissy-fit from earlier?

Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I could gather together that I was able to avert another public

If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle